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I'm wondering if games can benefit from using AVX and AVX2 and by how much? Of course this would just piss off gamers who don't have CPUs that have these instructions. especially if games started requiring them. For developers it is a question of using an up to date compiler that supports AVX(2)(5...

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CPU cooling should not have to be the main producer of noise. With strategically placed case fans you could even cool a stock i7 CPU with a large heatsink without adding fans it. With a 2600K at 4GHz (below a Mugen 4) and a MSI 780Ti a top and rear exhaust both at ~800RPM are all the fans needed to ...

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Notebookcheck reviewed a couple of laptops with these Carrizo chips a while back, and the benchmark results are nicely summed up over here: http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-A-Series-A10-8700P-Carrizo-Notebook-Processor-Specifications-and-Benchmarks.144218.0.html TLDR: the A10-8700P is competing with...

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I really wish this article had both been at stock clocks and had gone back two more years and included the earlier price equivalents of the i7-920 (Q4'08) and i7-960 (Q4'09). They either spent the day screwing around with some hardware then wrote a story to get paid, or they have no clue and they w...

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It has a benchmark according to these guys: http://www.techspot.com/review/991-gta-5-pc-benchmarks/ To use the benchmark tool in GTA V, simply launch the game and navigate to the "graphics" menu. Then press the "tab" key to initiate the benchmark sequence. NOTE: You need to run t...

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Intel usually has the support in the linux kernel months or even close to year ahead of time for their future product. This did not seem to be the case when USB3 rolled out. But yeah, Intel is generally better at supporting Linux than other vendors. This excludes graphics drivers. Intel does not wr...

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Can confirm the support story. I bought a used U2713HM which suffered from annoying buzzing when viewing lots of text. Luckily, Dell fixed said problem in some more recent revision of the monitor. When you're on the phone with them asking for a replacement, they will only ask for a credible problem ...

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Yep, that's about right. This also allows them to obtain higher frequencies because Si performs better at lower temperatures. Yes folks, your overclock will in fact improve at lower temperatures due to science! I forgot to mention that semiconductor junctions are also really sensitive to incoming hi...

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Sorry about that reply to the guy being helpful and suggesting an upgrade. It just wasn't neccesary. About the reliability part: It's a fact that integrated circuits are only designed to run for a couple of years at their specified frequency, voltage and temperature range. This is becoming more and ...

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You will love Haswell especially compared to your Phenom2 that like JBI said gave you a good run for very little money for the CPU. I managed to pick up a unused 2600K and a Asus Maximus IV GENE combination for about €250. Quite happy with it. It's currently doing 4.3GHz at 1.25V, which is more tha...

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Weird. I am running a 6950 with 1440p and 1200p LCDs attached. I've only seen one instance of a black screen (wake from sleep). The main problem that I (fairly rarely) run into is blurry text on the 1440p screen when I wake from sleep. Power cycling the monitor or PC fixes it. This happened much mo...

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The single 4K screen wasn't even initially detected. I had to boot into safe mode with my old monitors, and install the monitor driver for the new one then re-boot and attach it. It is then detected, but not all the time and flickers and actually BOUNCES the image across the screen like a poorly tu...

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anotherengineer wrote:
Try 3 cores and see if it happens.

Yeah, I tried that. I've tried to disable core 2, 3, or 4 (1 cannot be disabled) and the errors persist in any case.

Must be some kind of interconnect that is failing horribly. It's either that or core 1 is broken.

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Blistering barnacles. Locking fixed it.

So, this is what computing on a Pentium 4 must feel like these days.

Haswell it is then.

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I thought the TLB bug was corrected with the phenom II and only the phenom I suffered from the issue? Yeah, I thought about that too. But I'm reeeeealy sure this is in fact a Phenom II. A Phenom II X2 550 RB-C2 to be precise. The **** of **** overclockers especially when unlocked. Also, some cpu co...

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:( I should not have checked the Event Viewer just for fun after completing an OS reinstall. It is filled with hardware errors regarding the ECC applied to the TLB of the processor. These errors are reported by WHEA and documented over here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/...

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Have you, for the sake of science, tried to unplug the power source of these drives for a couple of days? Long term endurance tests like the one that started it all: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?271063-SSD-Write-Endurance-25nm-Vs-34nm ... show that SSDs seem to be more prone to...

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On my desktop system with a Realtek ALC888 using the drivers provided by Microsoft for Windows 7 SP1 they do in fact show up as two devices:
http://i.imgur.com/MKCPFM7.png
http://i.imgur.com/1dwFwDH.png

And yeah, all you need to do is right click one of them and select "Set Default".

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Heh, that sounds familiar. Sim City 4 Deluxe (even the updated Steam edition) will not play fullscreen at any resolution above 2048 pixels wide either. I believe that game uses DX8 as its render. You'd have better luck finding something that is based on DX9. My setup consists of a AMD HD5850 driving...

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If I had to make an educated guess now without any further information on the PCB and part number of the transformer, I'd say you fried some traces in the PCB and one or two components around it that caused **** to happen in the first place. The first part isn't fixable unless you buy a new power su...

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If a resistor fails when too much voltage is applied to it it will basically burn to a crisp until it stops conducting. This one doesn't look broken. This more looks like the PCB has been taking a lot of heat from the diode next to it (or some other short circuit nearby). FYI, the black thing is a d...

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It's a diode, not a resistor, looking at the markings on the PCB and the cylindrical black package. Edit: oh, there's more photos. Yeah, the diode (the black thing) probably died. Not the resistor. Edit2: can you give a overview picture of the whole PCB? It might give a clue as to w...

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Found an even cheaper card with the actual four outputs that every recent NVIDIA cards ought to have. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125503 (GTX750 non-Ti) If you don't care about gaming, just grab this GTX750 non-Ti. It saves you fourty dollars for a grand total of $119,99...

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Here's a couple options: ⋅ All NVIDIA 600 and 700 series cards support four single link (max. 1920x1200@60Hz) displays. You only need to find one with four actual connectors. Ooh, here's one. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125511 (GTX750Ti) ⋅ You could g...

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Regarding the source of these numbers (very important!), they seem to originate from PCPer:
http://www.pcper.com/news/General-Tech/ ... GTX-750-Ti

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My good old 2009 by then high end rig scores close to half as much as a 2013 one. Yay for progress.

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As noted above, I am not sure whether Magician is measuring the amount of data written by the host, or the amount of data written to the flash array (after write amplification). According to Samsung, the 0xF1 or 241st attribute in SMART of the 830/840 series stores the amount of sectors the SSD had...

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Well technically it's not SMT because AMD does actually have 8 physical integer cores in the FX. Well, if you compare to Intel and even past AMD designs, it's not even eight worthy INT cores you're looking at. Bulldozer has two INT cores which each are a lot weaker than Phenom's and Intel's. Bulldo...

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Auxy, you can reproduce everything I calculated using the script I provided in the sources. You can run it using MATLAB or have a good look at it without:
http://wilcobrouwer.nl/bestanden/main3.m

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Yep, a lot of arguments against multiple weaker cards, stuff like the GTX690 and the GTX770 are related to the resolutions used. Often, discussions revolve around the opinion that "one should not use graphics card X in combination with resolution Y because it has or will have to little VRAM&quo...

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